Daniel Ricciardo’s third place in the Grand Prix of the Eifel has spicy consequences for Cyril Abiteboul. The Renault team boss had promised earlier this year to get a tattoo if the Australian driver made the podium in this Formula 1 season.
“If all goes well, Daniel can choose a design and I can determine the place and the size. As long as that is the case, I can have any design, I think,” Abiteboul said after the race at the Nürburgring. Motorsport.com.
“Last year Daniel showed me his new tattoo and then I asked how he got to do something like that. After a few beers I said, ‘If you make it to the podium, I’ll take one’. I’m a man of mine. word.”
Ricciardo – he finished in the top three for the first time since he started driving for Renault in 2019 – already said on Sunday that the design will probably have a German touch, referring to the Nürburgring.
“We’re going to think about it for a while,” said the 31-year-old Australian. “It will probably be a design that has to do with me and Germany.
Ricciardo only had to put up with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen in the Grand Prix of the Eifel. The next Formula 1 race is on October 25 in Portimão, Portugal.
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